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WE have recently carried out experiments which suggest that a penetrating radiation is emitted by charged thunderclouds. In the arrangement used, one pen of an electric chronograph was actuated by a Geiger-Müller counter, another pen by a chronometer marking half-seconds, and a third by the atmospherics received from lightning flashes on a two-valve amplifier. The records have been examined to see whether the kicks of the counter and the flashes showed any significant time relations.
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Schonland, Proc. Roy. Soc., A, 130, 37; 1930.
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SCHONLAND, B., VILJOEN, J. Evidence of a Penetrating Radiation from Thunderstorms. Nature 130, 399 (1932). https://doi.org/10.1038/130399a0
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